Collaborative Models of Shared Responsibility for Human Rights: From Issues to Solutions

The project seeks to provide orientation for corporations in dealing
with human rights challenges. It is based on three project modules.
The first module comprises a mapping of human rights issues (notably
social and economic rights), distinguishing them according to their
relative maturity (e.g., «hot issues», «emerging
issues», and «slumbering issues»). The second
module aims at providing guidance for corporations particularly
regarding how to successfully deal with such social and economic
human rights issues which are yet fairly elusive and thus lack an
established practice but which have a high chance of influencing the
CSR debate in the future (read «slumbering issues»). To
this end, a collaborative, cross-sector model for shared public and
political responsibility will be outlined. In the third and final
module, the model for shared public and political responsibility
will be applied and refined in the context of approximately three
case studies. Taken together, the present project helps corporations
to better understand and deal with emerging social and economic
human rights issues.

keywords

Social and economic human rights, issue identification, cross-sector collaboration, public and political responsibility

partner

type

applied research project

status

completed

start of project

2012

end of project

2012

principal

Prof. Dr. Florian Wettstein

additional informations

topics

Social and economic human rights, issue identification, cross-sector
collaboration, public and political responsibility